Yeap - we have become a Dixie cup society - use it, wade it up, toss it
- and why not if you can, I hear, buy a new machine for $90 and it cost
$140 to fix in labor alone. Still, something seems wrong with this picture.

On 2/1/2011 11:33 AM, Eric wrote:
> No it is not unbelieable. If anything it should be more. If you
> (meaning people) want your data and you don't know how to do it, well
> we (meaning geek squad) can do it. Yes, it is extremely easy to us,
> but not to you, and our time is not worth nothing. So. yes we will
> charge you up to $140 to do a data transfer. Our time is more valuable
> to you at the moment because you failed to backup your own data like
> you are supposed to.
>
> This comes up countless time and I am tired of hearing and seeing it.
> If you break a valve and need it fixed you hire a plumber and you
> (meaning people) will pay what the plumber tells you to pay. But for
> some reason when it comes to computer you (again, people) think it
> should be done for free.
>
> This message goes out to everyone. Yes we know how to do these things,
> we are nice people, and we want to help people, but Best Buy is a
> business. How long will your business stay up if you kept working for
> free?
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Jay Scalf<jayscalf (at) comcast (dot) net [email concealed]> wrote:
>> charged $100 extra to move his data from the old to new machine.
>> (Unbelievable, eh?)

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